The current study was an attempt to see the gender difference of personality traits of secondary school students. The sample comprised of 900 (461 boys and 439 girls) students selected from different secondary schools especially from class IX and X from Giridih District of Jharkhand State. Accidental or Incidental sampling technique was used to collect the data. The investigator has used a NEO Five-Factor Inventory in the present study which is a standardized inventory developed by Paul T. Costa, Jr and Robert R. McCrae (1992). This Inventory has five dimensions which are Neuroticism (N), Extraversion (E), Openness (O), Agreeableness (A), and Conscientiousness(C). In the present study all the dimensions are compared separately. Statistical techniques likeMean, SD and t test were used to analyze the data. It was found that Secondary School boys and girls differ significantly only on the openness dimension of Personality Traits and they score same on the other dimensions. This means there is no difference between Secondary School boys and girls on Neuroticism, Extraversion, Agreeableness and Conscientiousness dimensions as well as total of Personality Traits.
Personality traits, Secondary school students, Gender
